George Soros

George Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management and of the Open Society Foundations. He is author of The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror. His articles are brought to readers in co-operation with Project Syndicate

Vladimir Putin's extraordinary rise from security services chief to Russian head of state stunned even his own supporters. But the credit goes to one man: Boris Berezovsky. Today, as Tony Blair becomes the first leader to welcome Putin to the west, George Soros reveals how the shadowy oligarch picked his own president